Robert Peterson
Pragmatic Works
rpeterson@pragmaticworks.com
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Pragmatic Works Experience: 2004-2009
 CEO & Founder, Brian Knight
◦ SSIS Author, SQL Server MVP, SQLServerCentral.com (Co-Founder)
 Extensive experience with Enterprise SQL 2000 upgrades
 Migrated over 400 companies and 130,000 DTS packages globally
 Recommended by Microsoft. Direct communication with Redmond.
 What did we learn?
◦ DTS is often a major obstacle
◦ Very difficult for companies to plan a DTS migration
◦ Developers have little or no experience with SSIS
◦ DTS proliferated with little or no IT Governance or Standards
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SSIS: IT Governance and Standards
 Automation does more than create an SSIS package.
◦ Duplicate DTS logic in a native SSIS package
◦ Add value to packages during the migration
 Use the consistent best practices required for good IT governance
 Consolidate data connections
 Apply an Auditing/Monitoring Framework
 Use consistent naming conventions
 Turn on new SSIS features:
 Checkpoints
 Transaction wrappers
◦ An upgrade is an opportunity for house cleaning
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Pragmatic Works: Business Intelligence Suite
Migrate Document
• BI xPress
• DTS Profiler
• Discover DTS
• Convert packages • Applies SSIS • Document
packages
• Apply Auditing & Standards without metadata
• Analyze across your
Monitoring manual coding.
complexity SQL Server
framework and.. • Deploy, monitor,
• Build project plan environment
• Other best practices report, notify, and
w/ time and cost
audit right from
within Visual Studio
Profile Manage
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Customers & References: 400 companies & 130,000 packages
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 Upgrading DTS with DTS xChange
 Standardize SSIS with BI xPress
◦ SSIS standards without manual coding
 Document SSIS with BI Documenter
◦ Automatically document your metadata across SQL Server
 Q&A
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Pragmatic Works: BI Suite of Services
 Outsourced DTS>SSIS migration service for companies with resource
constraints
 Business Intelligence Training (Classroom and web delivered)
◦ SSIS – Integration Services
◦ SSAS – Analysis Services
◦ SSRS – Reporting Services
 Data Warehouse Fast Track
◦ Five day, onsite, training/mentoring engagement that builds a proof of
concept Data Warehouse
 SQL Server Performance Tuning Fast Track
◦ Five day, onsite, training/mentoring engagement to optimize SQL
Performance
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Next Steps
 Download trial software at
www.Pragmaticworks.com
 Contact: Robert Peterson
◦ +1.904.638.2392
◦ Rpeterson@Pragmaticworks.com
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